"That will be 2.50 please," the young woman at the register said.

I paid her the money for the strawberry snow cone, all the while muttering to myself about how expensive snow cones were becoming. 'What was next $4.00 for a soda at the vending machines?!'

Not realizing I had stopped walking and had a fist pumped in the air with a rather comical look on my face, I slowly put my arm down and lightly giggled nervously at my own craziness. The other customers made sure to walk around the "crazy girl." I tried to as calmly as possible walk to the table outside of the little ice cream parlor. Luckily one of my best friends Yuri didn't see me or else I never would have heard the end of it! Shino was getting off of work soon and we would all go out shopping for the day. I really envied Shino sometimes, not only did she have a great waitressing job at an expensive restaurant (remember expensive restaurants equal great tips), but she had a boyfriend who didn't try to order her around as much as mine does. Don't get me wrong! I'm absolutely crazy about Mugen, in fact I love the big ape! But he does really try my patience, but I really am no better. Today should have been a stress free day for me but Mugen and me got into an argument today and I'm still kind of upset about it.

Flashback to the apartment earlier that day around 11:30 am:

"Oi, babe."

I barely had time to turn around before he pulled me into a kiss. I swear we have been together for about 8 months now, and we have been living together for 3 months, and he still has the power to put me under some kind of spell with his kiss. Before he had time to slip in his tongue, which I knew he was going to do by the way he pulled me closer and tried to bend my head back further, I pushed him off gently . He looked a bit disappointed, but Mugen was never the type to quit when he wanted to kiss me or do...other… things with me. I smiled at him and turned back around and bent over slightly to look at myself in the mirror and put on some more of my new strawberry flavored lipgloss, which I knew Mugen loved seeing on me. He started to rub my back with his right hand but soon got tired of that and decided to wrap his right arm snuggly around my waist and his left caressed my left upper arm. and I smiled gently knowing that soon we would be arguing. I felt a pang of guilt swarm through me, I had been putting off the news of my day out with the girls for as long as I could, but I had to leave within the next hour to make it on time to the ice cream shop where I would meet up with the girls. When I had finished he turned me around and embraced me.

"Well now aren't you affectionate today"…I said as I was nuzzling his neck. We stood there for a while, him running his fingers through my waist long hair and me buring my face in his chest. I started to twiddle my fingers behind his back which he noticed.

"yo."

I looked up sheepishly, he knew something was up.

"what in the hell goes on in that girly head a yours?"

"…"

"look we can do this the easy way," and with that he got a lopsided grin on his face, "or…we can do it the hard way." His grin became a full fledged leer.

'Oh man, I can't go out with hickies all over, its summer time and I don't plan on wearing a scarf!'

"Mugen, wait!" I wildly flew my arms around pushing my horny boyfriend back. He chuckled and kissed my forhead.

"Then talk" and he crossed his arms. I decided I wanted to change first, the coward that I am delaying the inevitable.

"Give me a couple of minutes," I smiled coyly. That always got to him.

"Yeah alright, well get to it, imma' time you." He was interested but started to look irritated; he knew that he wasn't going to like what I had to say. But bless him, at least he was trying to be patient. I guess our talk on the importance of patience was paying off, mind you I did have to use my feminine ways to persuade him somewhat in that talk, but hey, it worked!

When I came back out from changing Mugens eyes nearly popped out of his head, there I was with my tight pink halter top (which is Mugen's favorite) and a blue severely short mini-skirt (not so much his favorite because it attracts lots of guys). Then he walked right up to me keeping eye contact the whole time. He looked normal enough but I knew better. And with that he made a grab for me. I swear he has a one track mind, but I've gotten used to his swift attempts at grabbling and groping me, and reared off to the side.

"No mugen, we need to talk first."

I heard him grumble something that sounded like, "always wanting to talk."

Then he lazily slumped onto the couch looking like an abused puppy.

I stood close to the door and slipped on my white sandals rather quickly and held my purse to my chest and took one big breath and blurted out,

"Mugen-the-girls-and-me-are-going-out-for-the-day-to-go-shopping-and-I-won't-be-back-until-late!"

"......"

"umm…love-you-by!"

I then ran out the door not even bothering to lock it behind me, and took off at full speed out the door, but dammit I always was the clumsy type and I fell. Now when I fell I seriously thought I was a gonner but when I didn't see Mugen chasing after me spouting every curse word he knew, I felt a bit better. So when I got up and slowly started to walk away to the elevator, I heard the inevitable.

"WHAT!" "Oh no you don't, FUU!!!!"

About two minutes before that:

"Mugen-the-girls-and-me-are-going-out-for-the-day-to-go-shopping-and-I-won't-be-back-until-late!"

"umm…love-you-by!"

Mugen sat there dumbfounded watching his girlfriend run out the door as fast as her legs would carry her.

'Huh, what the hell was that? Did she expect me to get all that?' In truth all Mugen got was "umm…love-you-by!"

Mugen ran through what had just happened in his head and tried to decipher her long string of words. Slowly realization swept across his face followed with a clenching of his teeth and fists, all at once he lept up.

"WHAT!" "Oh no you don't, FUU!!!!"

No damn way was she going out shopping without him. Just two days before he nearly put some jerk in the hospital for hitting on her and not taking no for an answer. She was just too damn accident prone, always getting into dangerous situations.

'That guy, who the hell was he now, Umano-something...?'

'Awe who cares, point is she ain't going out unless I go too, 'specially wearing that outfit! She'd get hit on for sure!!'

In Mugen's heart he knew that that wasn't the only reason he didn't want her to go, he was always afraid that Fuu would find someone else and leave him. He was so used to having nothing in his life that when he found someone that he loved and miraculously loved him back, that he couldn't live without that love. This Fuu knew all too well, and no matter how many times she told him that she loved him and would always stay with him, he always had that fear of abandonment in the back of his mind.

When Mugen ran out the door and saw Fuu staring at him wide eyed he did what he believed any overprotective boyfriend would do , and he said or rather yelled, "you ain't going out shoppin' without me!"

Fuu was at a loss for words, even though she was angry at him for yelling at her, he had such a look on his face that let her know that he was not just angry, but that he was afraid. There were plenty of creeps out there and she seemed to attract every one of them, and she also attracted some guys who weren't creeps at all. In-fact a lot of them were pretty descent and rather attractive.

"…Mugen, they're waiting for me. I'll be careful," she tried to say as soothingly as possible.

By now he was right in front of her. "No." It was final and that's all there was to it, and she knew he wasn't going to budge. She couldn't help the scowl that marred her pretty features. "I can't believe you!"

She looked on the verge of tears and Mugen knew it, but he forced himself to not change his mind. He couldn't let her go out on her own, she could get hurt, or find someone else. Not that, no, he couldn't let that happen.

He reached out his arm to hold her hand and comfort her, but she was so upset that she ran past him back into the apartment, and locked herself in their room. When she left him standing there in the hall he was filled with such guilt that he couldn't move for a few minutes. He slowly walked to the apartment and could hear her soft sobs coming from their room.

"Fuu? Come on babe I'm sorry okay, just come out," he said pleadingly.

"...."

"Look I'll take you wherever you wanna go. If you wanna go shopping then we'll all go. I can just call the girls for you Fuu, and I'll tell 'em that the four of us are goin'." No answer was heard except for her sobs which seemed to slow down somewhat.

"Fuu?" he called again and nothing.

He couldn't bear it anymore and tried to open the door to the bedroom.

"Don't you dare!" "Don't come anywhere near me, I don't want to see you!!" She struggled to hold together her voice which kept cracking and tried to hold back another sob.

Mugen just stood there thinking to himself, 'am I really that much of a possessive monster?'

Truth is he was just a man desperately in love for the first time in his whole rotten life. Here he was nearly 24 years old and he was experiencing love of any kind, for the first time.

He walked away from the door and headed for the shower. He wasn't going to force himself into the room, not after what he just did.

Fuu listened to him walk away and head for the shower. As soon as she heard the water running she walked out of the room and quickly checked her make-up and made her way to the door. Yes, she was mad, and hurt, she knew that underneath his demand was the fear that she would meet someone else, but she had a right to have friends and spend time with them too. So she left him a small note on the kitchen counter, mouthed the words "I love you" to the bathroom door, and walked solemnly out of the appartment.

TBC

Well...that's my first attempt at writing a fanfic. I'll try to post the second part to it up as soon as I can, but you know how it is. Please leave lots of reviews and be kind, remember you all were once rookies at this too. Still constructive criticism is very welcome! Thanks, later!!!